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With the youngest and tiniest patients, pediatrics hardly seems like a hot zone for patient handling injuries. Yet that assumption of safety is itself a hazard. Pediatric caregivers treating children, adolescents, and young adults may be at significant risk of injury.

Even children pose hazard of lift injury

With the youngest and tiniest patients, pediatrics hardly seems like a hot zone for patient handling injuries. Yet that assumption of safety is itself a hazard. Pediatric caregivers treating children, adolescents, and young adults may be at significant risk of injury.